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In Our Hands : A Plan to Replace the Welfare State.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, DC : AEI Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (152 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442260726
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In Our HandsDDC classification:
  • 361.6/80973
LOC classification:
  • HN65 -- .M877 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
In Our Hands -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- GROUND RULES -- PREFACE TO THE 2016 EDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. FRAMEWORK -- 1. THE PLAN -- 2. BASIC FINANCES -- PART II. IMMEDIATE EFFECTS -- 3. HEALTH CARE -- 4. RETIREMENT -- 5. POVERTY -- 6. THE UNDERCLASS -- 7. WORK DISINCENTIVES -- PART III. THE LARGER PURPOSE -- 8. THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS IN ADVANCED SOCIETIES -- 9. WORK -- 10. FAMILY -- 11. COMMUNITY -- 12. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIXES -- A. THE PROGRAMS TO BE ELIMINATED -- B. THE UBI'S COST COMPARED WITH THE COST OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM -- C. PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ABOUT POLITICAL FEASIBILITY AND TRANSITION ISSUES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
Summary: Imagine if the United States were to scrap all forms of existing welfare and give every American age twenty-one and older 10,000 a year for life. This is the Plan, a radical new approach to social policy that defies any partisan label. First laid out by Murray a decade ago, the updated edition reflects economic developments since that time.
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In Our Hands -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- GROUND RULES -- PREFACE TO THE 2016 EDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. FRAMEWORK -- 1. THE PLAN -- 2. BASIC FINANCES -- PART II. IMMEDIATE EFFECTS -- 3. HEALTH CARE -- 4. RETIREMENT -- 5. POVERTY -- 6. THE UNDERCLASS -- 7. WORK DISINCENTIVES -- PART III. THE LARGER PURPOSE -- 8. THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS IN ADVANCED SOCIETIES -- 9. WORK -- 10. FAMILY -- 11. COMMUNITY -- 12. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIXES -- A. THE PROGRAMS TO BE ELIMINATED -- B. THE UBI'S COST COMPARED WITH THE COST OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM -- C. PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ABOUT POLITICAL FEASIBILITY AND TRANSITION ISSUES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Imagine if the United States were to scrap all forms of existing welfare and give every American age twenty-one and older 10,000 a year for life. This is the Plan, a radical new approach to social policy that defies any partisan label. First laid out by Murray a decade ago, the updated edition reflects economic developments since that time.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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